opensesh docsAgenda
Agenda (/admin/agenda) turns your accepted sessions into a published schedule. The builder works against the event library's Rooms and your event's days, and nothing is public until you explicitly publish.
The builder
The page has three tabs:
The grid view: days across the top, rooms as columns, sessions placed into time slots.
A Draft / Published badge shows the schedule's state.
What can be placed
Only sessions (accepted submissions from the Sessions desk) can be placed.
Conflict detection
The conflict checker watches two rule classes as you place sessions:
- Room overlap — two sessions occupying the same room at overlapping times.
- Speaker double-booking — one speaker placed in two overlapping slots.
Each conflict is explained in plain terms — What / Who / Where / Why — so fixing it doesn't require detective work.
Drafting is never blocked
Conflicts don't block you while drafting; they're a to-do list to clear before publishing.
AI draft generation
If the deployment has an Anthropic API key, the AI drafts dialog can propose a schedule. You constrain it with:
- Criteria name, the days and rooms to use, and which session statuses to include.
- Respect existing placements — keep what you've already placed and only fill gaps.
- Up to 12 free-text rules, like "keynotes in Hall A morning" or "no two talks from the same track back-to-back".
Proposals, not placements
Generation produces a proposal, not a schedule: you compare it against the current draft and explicitly accept placements. Nothing moves until you say so, and the conflict checker validates the result like any manual edit.
Publish and unpublish
Publish makes the schedule live on the public event site's Agenda and Itinerary tabs (/e/<eventSlug>), in agenda widgets, and in the ICS feed. After edits, Republish pushes the new version; Unpublish takes the schedule down (session and speaker pages stay up).
Suggested flow
Groundwork first
Confirm Rooms and day boundaries in the event library and settings.
Anchor the fixed slots
Place keynotes and fixed slots by hand.
Let AI fill the gaps
Run an AI draft with Respect existing placements to fill the rest; accept the placements you like.
Drive conflicts to zero
Clear the Conflicts tab to zero.
Go live
Publish, and embed the agenda on your site with a widget.